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Ironically it may only be able to do this because it has been trained on Hickey’s creation. This was one of his criticisms.

• bdangubic 9mo ago
  what has hickey been trained on? ;)
  • kokada 9mo ago
    Years of experience working in Enterprise and complex systems. And that is all on point with the criticism: while an AI can design a new language based in an existing language like Clojure, we need actual experienced people to design new interesting languages that add new constraints and make Software Engineering as a whole better. And we are also killing with AI the possibility of new people getting up to speed and becoming a future Rich Hickey.
    • bdangubic 9mo ago
      > And we are also killing with AI the possibility of new people getting up to speed and becoming a future Rich Hickey. Not sure I am on board with this part... I find LLMs in particular to be great teachers specifically for getting up to speed to becoming future Rich Hickey.
      • whiteros_e 9mo ago
        it is indeed a great teacher but there are times where it hallucinates and sticks to the hallucinated content even after several iteration unless human in the loop breaks it. i've wasted hours believing what LLM hallucinated. my learnings are a lot of microdoses of things that I usually don't work on in a day to day so i don't want to spend time reading about it but yes this sort of learning would be otherwise impossible so gotta thank LLM for that.